Thousands are still without power after storms

10:52 AM,
Sep. 13, 2013

Detroit police officers ride horses on Jefferson Avenue downtown on Thursday. Traffic signals and street lights remained out in a power outage that started Wednesday. Heat and failed equipment were blamed.

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Stu Busse and his wife, Camille, could feel the concussion from the lightning strike and high winds that blasted a nearby transformer and splintered a tree in their Northville backyard Wednesday evening.

"It was like somebody had just thrown one of those flash grenades," Stu Busse, 70, said Thursday as he surveyed the damaged tree and downed lines in his yard.

The couple were standing on their back porch when the storm hit their 93-year-old house on North Wing Street. ...